Fargo Flood Forces Evacuation

The Red River may hit record levels over the weekend as residents fill sandbags through the night while some evacuated, reports Dave Price. Harry Smith talks to two evacuees in Fargo, N.D.

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[cantstopsingin]

this flood is NOT caused by global warming. didnt you hear him say we're fighting this flood in snow? that means it's COLDER than usual. come on people lets use our heads.

[lanen23]

That's just it; there IS protection. People here are used to regular flooding (18 feet). My in-laws bought riverfront property not too long ago. Their lot is at least twice as long as it is wide, with a very tall dike so they didn't have to worry about flooding.Their lot is 41 feet above river level. They had to sand bag. All of the houses along the Red have some sort of system where they are protected from the river in the spring - just not to these abnormal levels. It has NEVER been this high.

[poonamsvideoblogs]

@cantstopsingin Global WARMING does NOT mean that temps will get warmer only or steady. it means ERRATIC weather, a break in the seasons, unusual shifts in temp and humidity. Many ppl get confused with the confusing term. Global warming can cause torrential (?) snow storms such as we saw in NOrthern NY state a few years ago while taking away seasonal cold of winter and a steady 10 weeks of snowy conditions to be broken up with 70 degrees and such.

[cantstopsingin]

@hancock06 the global climate has been fluxuating in patterns of warming and cooling for milenia. In the seventies people were worried about global cooling and wanted to go melt the ice caps in antarctica. So even if global warming is occurring it is completely natural and will eventually reverse itself.

[samten10a]

Floods are getting worse all the time why? A big part is the farmers and all the ditching they do.  after 1970 when every farmer bought big horse power equipment. They now have the tools to fill and drain every swamp and large pot hole on THEIR land. When doing that in the spring it sends all the water to the rivers and cause damage to others property. No buddy will hold the farmers accountable or water shed board accountable for causing the destruction.

[Minnsue]

People who have to understand that Fargo/Moorhead are on a river that flows North! So when we get warmer in the southern part of Minnesota, it thaws out all of the snow, which has to go North where the river is still covered in ice. Too Much Snow & a frozen river adds up to a catastrophe for Fargo, Grand Forks, etc.

If it wasn't for such fantastic volunteers, the city would have been under water! I applaud the citizens for their tenacity, and the volunteers for their gracious spirit!

[ajgolfer1]

record drought is due to global warming record flooding is due to global warming record snow is due to global warming record heat is due to global warming record cold is due to global warming swine flu is due to global warming the hatian earthquake is due to global warming sadness is due to global warming heart disease is due to global warming cancer is due to global warming poverty is due to global warming global warming is the reason the took mash off the hallmark channel for a few months.

[X04trailblazerX]

Are you honestly kidding me? There was snow sitting on the ground during this...

[samatention]

This is not global warming it is farmers able now with bigger equipment to be able to leavle and drain sections of land at a time. So it hits the river faster instead of sitting in the fields. It is also the county building bigger ditch so the water hits the river faster. Until someone fixes that the cities will keep getting hit with higher floods waters every year.

[motocross75]

This happened months ago.

[Raymix213]

good luck fargo :)